Last summer, Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter-Poza and six other plaintiffs sued Donald Trump for blocking them on Twitter. This week, a federal judge ruled that his behavior wasn’t consistent with the First Amendment (and he cannot block followers based on their viewpoints). In other words, they won!

“We filed in July 2017,” Rebecca shared to Cosmopolitan. “It was the Knight Institute and six of us plaintiffs, and we are a very diverse crowd. We are a journalist, a cop, a doctor, a former professional athlete, a medium, a musician, and a professor. It sounds like the beginning of a joke: This crowd walks into a court room and sues the president. What happens next?!”

She added, “I now work as the Judicial Affairs Editor at the Daily Kos, and I work remotely. I was on my girlfriend’s couch yesterday when I got this email in my inbox and it just said, ‘We won.’ It’s a cliche, but time sort of froze. It was such an enormous victory for us, for journalists, for everyone. I will remember it for the rest of my life.”

“This case applies to more than Trump’s Twitter account, more than Twitter. Public officials are increasingly using social-media platforms as a means of engaging with their constituents, and it’s a critical part of their job. It was essential that this principle be established, because it’s no different from shutting people out of a town hall meeting based on their viewpoint. The Constitution does not permit that kind of act.”